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  • Decarbonizing digital currency: Law and Policy insights for reducing the energy consumption of Bitcoin and Blockchain technologies (2018) 44 Energy Research & Social Science 399-410 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.009;
  • FinTech and the City: Sandbox 2.0 policy and regulatory reform proposals (2019) International Review of Law, Computers and Technology https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2018.1546542;
  • Using Bitcoin technology to combat climate change (2018) Nature Middle East doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2018.111;
  • ‘Financing and self-financing of SDGs through financial technology, legal and fiscal tools’, in Julia Walker, Alma Pekmezovic and Gordon Walker (Eds) Sustainable Development: Harnessing Business to Achieve the SDGs through Financing, Technology and Innovation (Wiley: 2019);
  • ‘Climate Change law, policy and litigation in Qatar’, in Francesco Sindico (Ed.) Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects (Springer Nature: 2019);
  • Achieving Green Building in Qatar Through Legal and Fiscal Tools, Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 12, No. 5, October 2019;
  • ‘Qatar: Energy Policy’ in Günter Tiess, Tapan Majumder and Peter Cameron (Eds), Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy (Springer: 2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_150-1;
  • VW’s ‘defeat devices’ and liability for claims for lost emissions tax revenue (2017) 1 Global Journal of Comparative Law 1-24 http://0.1163/2211906X-00601001;
  • The Director Duty of Care in Qatar (2016) 26 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 337-375 http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djcil/vol26/iss2/2;
  • Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds to Avoid Investment Protectionism (2015) 1 Journal of Financial Regulation (Oxford) 95-134 https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fju002;
  • Enforcement activism of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive during the global financial crisis (2014) 38 William and Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review 3;
  • Measuring Qatar’s compliance with international standards on money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (2016) 19-3 Journal of Money Laundering Control http://10.1108/JMLC-04-2015-0011;
  • Qatar’s progress towards preventing terror finance through the abuse of charitable status and the financial sector (2016) 19(4) Journal of Money Laundering Control;
  • Deutsche Bank and the Use of Promises in Islamic Finance Contracts (2013) 7(4) Virginia Law & Business Review 619;
  • Maritime Emissions Taxation: An Alternative to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme? 31 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 310 (2014);
  • Extraterritoriality or an Illegal Tax? A Challenge to the Inclusion of Aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (2012) 14 Environmental Law Review 4, 301-306;
  • Fiscal tools for inclusion of GCC states in the global environmental programme: focus upon new vehicle imports (2012) in Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability (Edward Elgar, London, 2012);
  • EU Environmental Law (2018) 27 European Energy and Environmental Law Review 6;
  • Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources, Energy Research & Social Science (2018) 42, pp. 168–169;
  • Research Handbook on EU Energy Law and Policy (2018) Energy Research & Social Science, 42, 11–12.
  • Book Review of The International Law of the Sea by Donald R Rothwell, Tim Stephens (2017) European Energy and Environmental Law Review 26(6);
  • Validity of allowances under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (2017) 6(28) Environmental Law & Management; (2017) Environmental Liability;
  • Review of Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade: Lessons from the EU Experience (2017) 42 European Law Review 1, 131-134;
  • (With Melissa Deerhing) Review of Cinnamon P. Carlarne et al (ed), The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, Oxford University Press (2017) Journal of Environmental Law;
  • Review of Environmental Policy & Politics in the EU (2017) European Energy and Environmental Law Review;
  • Review of Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Market (2017) 26(2) European Energy and Environmental Law Review 60-2;
  • Free Zones, Foreign Ownership and Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment in Qatar (2016) 11-6 Global Trade & Customs Journal;
  • International investment law, trade in services and customs: legislative strategies for states hosting international competitive events (2017) 12-1 Global Trade & Customs Journal 39-45;
  • Reducing emissions and promoting energy efficiency in residential homes through reform of environmental taxation legislation (UTS: 2015) in 16th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, conference proceedings;
  • The final Budget: the British Parliament’s missed opportunity on Aviation Taxation and the environment (2015) 43 International Tax Review;
  • Aviation Tax, Free Trade and State Aid in the European Union: Ireland’s riddled Air Travel Tax (2015) EC Tax Review; Global Tax Weekly (2015);
  • Free Zones in the United Arab Emirates – Domestic and international tax issues (2015) 43 International Tax Review; Global Tax Weekly (2015);
  • Including Resource-rich growing GCC States in the Global Environmental Programme using Market Instruments: Focus upon Fuel Efficiency and Emissions in Imports of New Vehicles, in Market Instruments and Sustainable Economy, 12th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (Institute for Fiscal Studies; Madrid, 2011);
  • Towards Overcoming the Conflict between Environmental Tax Leakage and Border Tax Adjustment Concessions for Developing Countries (2010) 12 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 149-183;
  • Reforming the Air Passenger Duty as an Environmental Tax (2010-11) 12 Environmental Law Review 3 94-104;
  • Review of Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives, Volume VI (2010) 1 Environmental Liability 35.

Media:

  • The Independent, interview on Bitcoin causing climate change 30-10-2018 https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-nature-climate-change-environment-earth-a8607876.html
  • Newsweek, interview on Blockchain energy consumption article 1-08-2018 https://www.newsweek.com/stop-bitcoin-excessive-energy-consumption-environment-impact-1050798
  • Nature Middle East, interview on Blockchain article, 29-08-2018 doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2018.98
  • Financial Times FDI magazine, Will Qiddiya tempt entertainment seekers from Dubai? 16/08/2018 https://www.fdiintelligence.com/Locations/Middle-East-Africa/Saudi-Arabia/Will-Qiddiya-tempt-entertainment-seekers-from-Dubai
  • Financial Times FDI magazine, Saudi’s Neom: utopian oasis or mirage in the desert? 12/02/2018 https://www.fdiintelligence.com/Locations/Middle-East-Africa/Saudi-s-Neom-utopian-oasis-or-mirage-in-the-desert
  • Financial Times FDI magazine, Saudi Arabia opens domestic work agencies to FDI 06/04/2018 https://www.fdiintelligence.com/News/Saudi-Arabia-opens-domestic-work-agencies-to-FDI
  • Al Jazeera English TV, 6pm live News 18:00: AT&T-Time Warner interview, 23-10-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqry95SM_F4&feature=youtu.be
  • Al Jazeera English TV, 6pm live News 18:00: interview on counter terror finance, 27-4-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6QQy-SP3DY&feature=youtu.be
  • Al Jazeera English TV, Inside Story televised debate: ‘Has austerity worked?’ 24-1-2014
  • Al Jazeera English TV, Inside Story televised debate: ‘Should leaders be tried for mismanagement?’ 25-4-2012